Little Baron
I have had a drawing at home that has been sitting about for exactly a year. It is a shabby sketch, kind of cartoony. It is of a ginger youth in sportswear with a cigararette hanging out of his mouth. Nobody that has seen it, has liked it.
But I love him. It is very much like the pictures I did for the 'Minute Deck' exercise of Chronata's - except I did him with felt pens and not on the computer. He is purposely messy, jagged and harsh. He has hair on his knees, like small orange needles. He eyes are large and lifeless.
And I was thinking about him today on my journey home from Surrey. And I thought about what I could ever do with him. And then I thought about a deck, and this whole load of ideas, visions and inspiration washed over me. Because I am pretty sure that this guy has got some mates; not the kind you want hanging about outside your house, but they are definitely there. And I got this wild urge to bring them out of the shadows.
As a kid, I always had a real fascination with housing estates. I didn't live on one, but in South London, I walked through and visited enough. Often, it would be like a maze of small lights at night time - little balcanies, tight lifts and maze-like corridors. And the characters that came out at night were both scary and intreaging. There were real night creatures, in shadow.
And they still fascinate me today. I see them as I pass in the car - their caps, their scarves pulled up over their mouth, their tracksuits.
Call them what you like - scally, chav etc, but there is something haunting about this image. I am not planning on doing a 'jokey' deck - burberry chav send up - I actually want to explore the image and lifestyle. I want to do a dark, scratchy and edgy set of pictures to meditate through, like windows peeping into another world. I want to jump into these shadows with these lads and ladies. I think it might be uncomfortable but I am really excited about the idea.
You might not like the idea. It might not be that great. I still havn't worked out how I am going to do it yet and in which media.
But for now, how does it make you feel?????
LB
But I love him. It is very much like the pictures I did for the 'Minute Deck' exercise of Chronata's - except I did him with felt pens and not on the computer. He is purposely messy, jagged and harsh. He has hair on his knees, like small orange needles. He eyes are large and lifeless.
And I was thinking about him today on my journey home from Surrey. And I thought about what I could ever do with him. And then I thought about a deck, and this whole load of ideas, visions and inspiration washed over me. Because I am pretty sure that this guy has got some mates; not the kind you want hanging about outside your house, but they are definitely there. And I got this wild urge to bring them out of the shadows.
As a kid, I always had a real fascination with housing estates. I didn't live on one, but in South London, I walked through and visited enough. Often, it would be like a maze of small lights at night time - little balcanies, tight lifts and maze-like corridors. And the characters that came out at night were both scary and intreaging. There were real night creatures, in shadow.
And they still fascinate me today. I see them as I pass in the car - their caps, their scarves pulled up over their mouth, their tracksuits.
Call them what you like - scally, chav etc, but there is something haunting about this image. I am not planning on doing a 'jokey' deck - burberry chav send up - I actually want to explore the image and lifestyle. I want to do a dark, scratchy and edgy set of pictures to meditate through, like windows peeping into another world. I want to jump into these shadows with these lads and ladies. I think it might be uncomfortable but I am really excited about the idea.
You might not like the idea. It might not be that great. I still havn't worked out how I am going to do it yet and in which media.
But for now, how does it make you feel?????
LB